Dateline Warsaw - presidents, privacy and peccadilloes

Presented by Peter Gentle

In the studio for this week's Dateline Warsaw are Dow Jones acting central and eastern European bureau chief Marcin Sobczyk, freelance journalist Aleksander Nowacki and Polish Radio's senior foreign correspondent Jarek Kociszewski.

Closer magazine has taken down from its web site an article and photographs describing how President Franciois Hollande visited a residence near the Elysee Palace on a moped, while conducting a purported affair with a 41-year-old comic actress who campaigned on his behalf in the presidential election of 2012.

His official partner, and France's First Lady, is not reported to be pleased.

French media rarely run stories of politicians and their liaisons with lovers, as a) there are draconian laws against them doing so and b) private lives are generally regarded as being ... private in France.

Much of the UK media, for one - with its 'reveal all' mentality - has been laughing, not just at the French president but also at French journalists who, claim some commentators, are cowards for not delving deeper into the peccadilloes of France's public figures.

But how would our (Polish) journalists in the studio this week react if they got a tip off that the President of Poland had been seen coming out of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw on his moped for a meeting with his secret lover?

[Note to any lawyers listening: I am not suggesting for one moment that President Komorowski is actually having an affair, nor, even, that he owns a moped.]

That, and much more besides, in this week's Dateline Warsaw - the show where journalists chew over this week's top news stories.